In Re Proposed Disinterment of Jarvis

Attorneys representing Mutual Benefit Health and Accident Association (herein called “the company”) filed in the district court of Mahaska County application under sections 141.22 to 141.25, Code, 1950, for an order for disinterment of the dead body of Dr. Fred J. Jarvis for the purpose of holding an autopsy. The application was resisted by Doctor Jarvis’s widow. After hearing evidence offered by both applicant and resister the district court granted the application and Mrs. Jarvis has appealed to us.

Decedent, a retired physician, age 77, was injured in an automobile accident on January 20,…